Several countries in Latin America and the Caribbean are protecting millions of square kilometers of seas in some of the world’s most biodiverse zones.
Marine protected areas are one of the best tools to safeguard the…

Costa Rica, 8 June 2017 - On World Oceans Day, Costa Rica announces a new marine protected area on the country’s Pacific coast, contributing to the global goal of protecting at least 10 per cent of marine zones before the…

San José, Costa Rica, 19 February 2016 - Close to 40 governments agreed this week to enhance protection for additional migratory shark and ray species and to a set of new conservation priorities.
At the Second Meeting of…

This report is a terminal evaluation of a UNEP GEF project implemented between 2010 and 2014. The project aimed to consolidate the biosafety management capacities needed to implement the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (CPB). This was approached…

This is a terminal evaluation of a UNEP GEF project implemented between 2005 and 2008. The objectives of this project were: to enhance indigenous peoples' awareness and effective participation in CBD and GEF processes through the establishment…

This report is a terminal evaluation of a UNEP-GEF project implemented between 2006 and 2009.The overall goal of the project was to develop an enhanced capacity within country institutions to learn from previous experiences of other projects and…

The Project 'Strengthening the Implementation of Access to Genetic Resources and Benefit-sharing Regimes in Latin America and the Caribbean' was a Global Environment Facility (GEF) medium-sized project designed in 2010 and implemented…

This report is a terminal evaluation of a UNEP-GEF project implemented between 2012 and 2014.The overall objective of the project was to promote and support the broader adoption and more effective use of landscape-level sustainable land management…

The purpose of the Technology Needs Assessment Project (Phase I), supported by the Global Environment Fund (GEF), was to assist participating “developing country parties to identify and analyse priority technology needs, which can form the basis for…

Published on Jun 8, 2017
Costa Rica announces a new protected marine area on June 8, 2017 #WorldOceansDay. In this brief video, Costa Rican Minister of Environment and Energy, Edgar Gutierrez, presents the new…